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Dani Vottero

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Dani Vottero

I'm Dani, a professional photographer and retoucher.

With over ten years of experience, I've built a consistent photographic portfolio across various fields, including architecture, interior design, food, retail, advertising, hospitality, and travel.

11/08/2026

For a couple of years now, I've been noticing - with pleasure, to be honest - a significant conceptual shift within the high-end hospitality market. I could define it as a "turn" in how the spaces of hotels and resorts are understood and promoted.
And I'm not talking about that "lifestyle touch" - which for many means adding people assuming the image automatically becomes evocative and experiential - but a real commitment to naturalness.

This means, first and foremost, a return to a photo that is truly photography, capable of technically describing a space while at the same time making it come alive: gone are the hyper-processed images of a few years ago in search of the much-coveted "feeling" (that is, in 90% of cases, a shift to a warmer temperature and that's it... I think rarely has a word been losing so much meaning on a creative/advertising level, and at the same time has been able to influence production so much), which ended up distorting everything, creating false, heavy aesthetics that were the result of an ephemeral trend.

In my day-to-day work, this attitude translates into a much more careful treatment of lighting and color, where the ambiance - understood on a sensory level - and the space - understood on an architectural level - are preserved and presented to the viewer: external lighting - the use of flash, to put it bluntly - becomes finer, localized, and more careful; but the biggest change is seen in color management: the ambiance is not lost, but a more efficient color separation is sought. Nothing is clouded by a tone or a halo, everything is perceived in its natural color, but within the general ambiance of the space.

In this two images, the first taken at Daia Conil () for the agency Fly Me To The Moon, and the other at the Don Carlos Resort () in Marbella for the opening of its new restaurant Al Grano (), it is quite evident that everything is in its place, respecting the "feeling" (if we still want to keep using this word) without "eating up" anything: I think it can be a good example of where - in my first-hand experience - contemporary hospitality imagery seems to be heading.

09/07/2026

The Hotel Uzbekistan, designed by Ilya Merport’s team and completed in 1974, remains the most absolute icon of Soviet Modernism in Tashkent. Following the devastating 1966 earthquake, the city was rebuilt from scratch to become the USSR's showcase in Central Asia, demanding structures that were both visually striking and engineered to survive high seismic activity.

There is an unexpected Wes Anderson-like symmetry to its massive, 17-story curved facade. The entire block is wrapped in a monumental concrete and aluminum screen that reinterprets the traditional Central Asian 'pandjara'.
This massive grid is actually a passive engineering system, designed to shade the windows and lower the building's temperature during the Uzbek summer.

This shot is a first preview of a commissioned editorial project I’ve been working on these last months, focusing on the iconic Soviet landmarks across Tashkent.
More to come soon.

©Dani Vottero

02/07/2026

One of the Icelandica images that gives me the most sense of strength and emotion at the same time is this one of the church of Budir, a wooden construction painted with tar and pitch right in the middle of a lava field: its black silhouette stands against the horizon, and you start seeing it from far away, because there is nothing around it. Solitary and really eye-catching.

Its black color, so intriguing to a traveller like me, is not purely aesthetics: it is a practical choice to allow the wood to resist snow, wind and salt.

Budir was once one of the most active trading ports on the Snæfellsnes peninsula, eventually abandoned at the beginning of the nineteenth century, but today the church still remains. Built in 1848 by Steinunn Sveinsdóttir, who fought for years to get permission and funded it entirely herself. In a way, she never left, as her grave lies in the churchyard while the rest of the village has disappeared.

This story, as all the others that accompany the images of Icelandica, is what pushed me to keep going and dedicate more time and effort to the project, now already a few years in the making, but not quite there yet.

© Dani Vottero

20/05/2026

Luxury real estate photography is getting closer and closer to architectural and hospitality work, and this shoot for One Property Group at Carat Sky Villas in El Higuerón is a good example of that.

It does feel like a residential building, but then it doesn't.
And then it does again, because when you get into a property placed into the luxury real estate market, you really feel that the line between residential and hospitality is blurred: a reception that could absolutely be a five-star hotel lobby, coworking, an indoor pool, a spa, a Turkish bath, gardens, terraces.

So for a shoot like this, I needed to plan different types of shots, keeping in mind that the main use is real estate, because the images need to work on listings and the final goal is the sale.

With that in mind, I shot with compositions in between property photography and interior design because the spaces and the materials totally deserved that level of attention, while shifting towards a hospitality feeling while shooting the pool or the terrace because that is the experience the property is actually offering.
And photography, in the end, just has to keep up.

Carat Sky Villas — Full gallery: https://danivotterophotography.com/en/proyectos-recientes-fotografia-video/carat-sky-apartments-fuengirola-one-property-group

03/05/2026

"How beautiful." That was my first thought stepping through the wrought-iron door into the patio of Don Juan Boutique Hotel.

EsBoutique Hotels invited me to photograph three of their hotels in Úbeda and Baeza — a UNESCO World Heritage city known for its Renaissance architecture — and I spent about ten days there, moving between properties.

The Don Juan Hotel set the tone from the start for the whole project: a 16th-century palace with stone columns, a mudéjar timber ceiling, wrought iron details, a central fountain, and contemporary furniture, the result of a careful interior design that ties everything together.

Before I started shooting, I went through the spaces with the hotel team to agree on the approach. I used flash carefully, just enough to support the natural light coming from above as the patio had a soft, intimate quality and I wanted to keep it that way.

Hospitality and boutique hotel photography for EsBoutique Hotels.

22/04/2026

The Nara Prefectural Government Office (1965) is easily one of my favorite Mitsuo Katayama projects: in a city so tied to traditional Japanese architecture, Katayama’s choice of raw concrete and sharp geometry perfectly marks its institutional role.

I shot this with a strictly frontal composition to stay as close as possible to the logic of the work. This framing is consistent with the project's geometry and stability, so I think the image respects and inherits the building's own structural presence. If you look at it head-on, the symmetry and the rhythm of those repeated structural elements just work better.

I was lucky enough to have a man on a bike pass right in front of the camera during the time of the photoshoot spared for that area. That was really helpful because human presence provides the scale you need to truly understand the dimensions of the building.

One little tip for travellers: not everyone knows the rooftop is open to the public. If you visit Nara, I really suggest going up because the views of the surroundings are great.

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09/04/2026

Jara is the restaurant at Kimpton Los Monteros Marbella, one of more iconic hotels on the Costa del Sol, led by Michelin-starred chef José Carlos García, with a gastronomic proposal built around local products.

The photoshoot was commissioned by the hotel, and the brief we worked out together was pretty clear: photograph the food within the architecture, using the hotel's spaces as part of the image. It sounded easy, but in reality it was a good and fun challenge.

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